The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-17
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE time is coming if it is not quite at hand.
when the Anarchists of Europe should be ex-
clrded from shores. The prisons and poor
houses have been too long emptied in this
country, and this gigantic and growing evil
should be guarded against No immigrant
should be permitted to land.-Cincinnati Com
mercial Gazette.
THE man who cannot see that the Republican
party goes into the fight of next year with very
bright prospects, must be afflicted with political
color blindness.-New York Tribune.
COMMISSIONERS SPARKS, after being kicked out
of the General Land Office. will know more than
he did before. He will know that Democratic
reform means simply to talk reform but not to
practice it.-Chicago Journal
ONE Graham mob leader in Sundays
London doings. If this Graham is the man
who makes the Graham bread, it is not remark
able that he should appear in a great rising.
Louisville Courier journal.
An effort will doubtless be made to make
martyrs of the executed men, but it will pre-
vail only in limited circle. Murderers have
never figured very much in this country as
martyrs. Central Christian Advocate.
MR.. CLEVELAND has succumbed to the allure
ments of power and he is going to get there
again if the use of government patronage and
Endorsements of the New York machine will
take him Observation-Disclosures Sentinel.
THE Chicago News has discovered that the
tariff breeds Anarchists In a little while
shall probably hear the News announcing that
Bismarcks Introduction of American pork pro-
duced the cancer in the Crown Princes throat
SOME powerful interests are no doubt very
willing to put Mr. Sparks in the position of a
meddling and foolish official. But upon this
very question of indemnity grants he has rec.
ord that may have the making or unmaklng OF
an administration in it.-Pittsburg Disp ateh
WE are proud that Mayor Roche is a Repub-
lican. He has none of the methods of Harrison.
1t took the people of Chicago long time to
awake, but they overthrow the disreputable
Democratic machine at last; and with it the I'M
/ serupulous politicians who had pandered even
| to the Anarchists. Albany Express.
THE Prohibitionists in New York inching
| along at good gait They poled last week
| 5000 more votes than in 1856, and Il. 900 more
| year in the presidential campaign, a vote OF
| 70 coo is entirely within the range of probable
| ity, and fourffths of it must come from the
| breaking Republican party And still the paper
founded by Horace Greeley tries to whistle
| Philadelphia Evening Telegraph
THE surviving Anarchists who threaten to
/ make reprisals upon society by further blood
| shedding in order to avenge their dead COM
rades should reflect that if an adjustment of
| that kind should be accomplished more Anarch-
| lists would have to be killed. A settlement
| based on the idea of eye for an eye. a tooth
| for tooth. life for a life, would leave a
| killing for which anarchy stands debtor on the
| Haymarket account. Philadelphia Record.
| IF there were any certainty that the colored
vote in the South would 'oe counted for that
| side which it may be cast, there would be
| more force in the argument OF those VINO are
| urging the nomination of Robert Lincoln for
i President on the ground that he would get the
solid vote of the colored down South,
| .kase he's Mars Linkum's boy" But we have
| the word of Henry Watterson and other South
ern leaders that the colored vote will not be al
| lowed to counterfeit the white vote under any
| circumstances Whether an issue be made of
this in the coming campaign not, 1T is a fact
| which stares the people of the free States" in
| the face.-Brooklyn Standard Union.